Adding wireless

aaazza · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:34

Hi,

A friend wants to add wireless to their home (laptops etc). They currently have ADSL and a BT Voyager 205. I was going to recommend adding a Linksys WRT54GS to the network to provide the wireless.

From what I can gather from google (correct me if i'm wrong) the Voyager 205 is modem and a router with an Ethernet port (and USB), would it be as simple as plugging the ethernet port from the 205 into the Linksys?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

aaazza

vanandjuanunited · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:39

with the Linksys WRT54GS you could get rid of the BT voyager.
Also look at Netgear DG834UK ADSL Firewall Router. £55

aaazza · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:43

Why would I want to get rid of the BT box, the WRT54GS doesn't have a modem built in.

aaazza

aaazza · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:47

Think I just found the info I was looking for in another thread:

tolien said:
No ADSL modem. It'll work, you'd just need to hook an ethernet ADSL modem to the WAN port.

Thanks tolien (indirectly)

aaazza

vanandjuanunited · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:48

Ok so I cant read the spec for it.

Go for the netgear and get rid of the modem then.

aaazza · 28 Mar 2006 at 15:56

Lol, not much point as I can get the linksys for under £50

(and i've heard separate solutions work better) .

Think I just need to tell me friend to ensure they plug the cable from the voyager 205 into the LAN port of the linksys (not WAN been reading other threads on this) and they should be away.

Do they have to do anything else? (turn off DHCP on the router?)
And also what about accessing the router (linksys) and the 205's web interface? As far as I understand it they are both accessed through 192.168.1.1 is this going to be a problem (not able to access one of them etc)?

Again help appreciated.

aaazza

aaazza · 28 Mar 2006 at 19:49

Anyone?

aaazza

benjo plz. · 28 Mar 2006 at 19:55

You can plug the 209 into the Linksys or you could buy a modem router. Up to you tbh.